Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little of the ghastly end. The last, pitifully small ammunition dump on Bataan went up in smoke and flame; the three ships at the water's edge (including the 6,000-ton sub tender Canopus) were dynamited. Finally, from one of the heights on Bataan, a white flag went up. How many of the 36,000 died fighting, only the Japs knew...
...vastly more in the next 48 hours. In that cataclysmic, overcast afternoon and black night, the Lützow was in the forefront of action. She was finally so battered that she had to be abandoned. Cool and unhurried, Officer Raeder oversaw the transfer of his chief's flag to another battle cruiser, the Moltke, then through the retirement picked up the pieces of his job and went methodically on with...
Twice they were spotted by a Jap plane-it looked like "Photograph Joe," a reconnaissance pilot who flew over Corregidor every morning-but the expected bombers failed to follow. At native villages where they stopped by day the Filipinos, overjoyed at sight of their boat flying the U.S. flag, told them tales of rape in towns occupied by the Japs...
...that morning. Long after the Battle of Java, they had patched up a ship which Americans had been forced to abandon because of engine trouble, and managed to get it out. As they landed, one jumped out and said to the Australians and Americans: "Can you paint the Dutch flag on this ship and let us have some bombs and gasoline? We're going back to Java...
...delightful, timely entertainment. It fails to make full use of its Continental shades, and its wobbly plot could stand tightening, but its well-played characters are honestly appealing -especially young Holden, as he tells the jury: "I hope what I am trying to say doesn't sound like flag-waving. I have always felt that flag-waving was something sacred and quiet, and not to be done for any selfish motive...